Name: Sauce for Boiled Turkey or Chicken
Ingredients: milk; cauliflower, cut into small pieces; lemon; livers, boiled and mashed

Why it works: Cauliflower and lemon work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 179 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Sauce for Boiled Turkey or Chicken

Ingredients

milk
cauliflower, cut into small pieces
lemon
livers, boiled and mashed

Directions

Make a caper sauce using milk instead of broth or water.
Add cauliflower pieces or lemon and the boiled, mashed livers.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Cauliflower + lemontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together179 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,053 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Milk + cauliflowertop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together314 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Milk + livertop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together288 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Lemon + livertop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together768 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).